Rachel Mills
@docrmills.bsky.social
Teacher of History and Politics.
Professional Tutor working with beginner teachers and mentors.
Love a good book.
Professional Tutor working with beginner teachers and mentors.
Love a good book.
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Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.
September 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.
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Listening to this pca.st/episode/5203...
It's very good breakdown of all sorts of aspects of education changes over the last 10 years and @counsellc.bsky.social has a great sense of what went well and what mutated to more of the same.
It's very good breakdown of all sorts of aspects of education changes over the last 10 years and @counsellc.bsky.social has a great sense of what went well and what mutated to more of the same.
What is genericism, and why is it so important? With Christine Councsell
pca.st
July 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Listening to this pca.st/episode/5203...
It's very good breakdown of all sorts of aspects of education changes over the last 10 years and @counsellc.bsky.social has a great sense of what went well and what mutated to more of the same.
It's very good breakdown of all sorts of aspects of education changes over the last 10 years and @counsellc.bsky.social has a great sense of what went well and what mutated to more of the same.
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Yesterday I contacted the #mentors I work with to suggest some blogs I have written in response to the mentor queries I have received at this time of year. If you work with #ITT beginning teachers in #PGCE #SCITT #TeacherEducation these may be of use.
A 🧵 of 9 blogs for this time of year... 1/
A 🧵 of 9 blogs for this time of year... 1/
May 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Yesterday I contacted the #mentors I work with to suggest some blogs I have written in response to the mentor queries I have received at this time of year. If you work with #ITT beginning teachers in #PGCE #SCITT #TeacherEducation these may be of use.
A 🧵 of 9 blogs for this time of year... 1/
A 🧵 of 9 blogs for this time of year... 1/
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Starmer should invite Farage to tour a NHS ward in central London to see how much he connects with working people.
Excl: Nigel Farage will challenge Sir Keir Starmer to accompany him on a visit to a working men’s club in the north of England to see who connects better with working people, as the Reform UK leader makes his pitch to traditional Labour voters.
www.thetimes.com/article/331b...
www.thetimes.com/article/331b...
Nigel Farage to challenge Keir Starmer to ‘connect with working people’
The Reform UK leader is seeking to capitalise on his party’s rising popularity by launching his ‘biggest direct attack yet’ on the prime minister
www.thetimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Starmer should invite Farage to tour a NHS ward in central London to see how much he connects with working people.
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The Trump regime is not remotely interested in "free speech", in any meaningful sense.
What it wants is impunity for its own speech, while intimidating and silencing opposing ideas.
What it wants is impunity for its own speech, while intimidating and silencing opposing ideas.
May 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The Trump regime is not remotely interested in "free speech", in any meaningful sense.
What it wants is impunity for its own speech, while intimidating and silencing opposing ideas.
What it wants is impunity for its own speech, while intimidating and silencing opposing ideas.
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The sheer barefaced dishonesty of a regime that is snatching people off the streets for their speech; painting over testimonials to women & minorities in US history; subjugating universities & trying to crush research into subjects it dislikes, standing as a champion of "free speech" is staggering.
May 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The sheer barefaced dishonesty of a regime that is snatching people off the streets for their speech; painting over testimonials to women & minorities in US history; subjugating universities & trying to crush research into subjects it dislikes, standing as a champion of "free speech" is staggering.
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NEW: Weekend News Agents
Was a pleasure to sit down with the great Jake Tapper to talk his new book “Original Sin”- about the decline of Joe Biden and the “cover up” in office about his health.
Is a quite the listen. Perfect for the bank holiday.
👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Was a pleasure to sit down with the great Jake Tapper to talk his new book “Original Sin”- about the decline of Joe Biden and the “cover up” in office about his health.
Is a quite the listen. Perfect for the bank holiday.
👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The truth behind Joe Biden’s decline: the inside story
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 23/05/2025 · 33m
podcasts.apple.com
May 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
NEW: Weekend News Agents
Was a pleasure to sit down with the great Jake Tapper to talk his new book “Original Sin”- about the decline of Joe Biden and the “cover up” in office about his health.
Is a quite the listen. Perfect for the bank holiday.
👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Was a pleasure to sit down with the great Jake Tapper to talk his new book “Original Sin”- about the decline of Joe Biden and the “cover up” in office about his health.
Is a quite the listen. Perfect for the bank holiday.
👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Perhaps notable that the Tory polling collapse in the last month has been almost entirely concentrated among older voters, while the Labour polling dip is almost wholly among younger voters.
May 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Perhaps notable that the Tory polling collapse in the last month has been almost entirely concentrated among older voters, while the Labour polling dip is almost wholly among younger voters.
This seems very suboptimal www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Children with special needs in England may lose legal right to school support
Exclusive: Schools minister declines to rule out replacing EHCP documents as part of plans to change Send system
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This seems very suboptimal www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Looking for your first teaching position? Our three-part webinar series is here to help you succeed!
Our expert panel walk you through finding opportunities, applications, and interview success.
Access part 1 on-demand here: https://shorturl.pulse.ly/hesdu2lvwz
Our expert panel walk you through finding opportunities, applications, and interview success.
Access part 1 on-demand here: https://shorturl.pulse.ly/hesdu2lvwz
May 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Looking for your first teaching position? Our three-part webinar series is here to help you succeed!
Our expert panel walk you through finding opportunities, applications, and interview success.
Access part 1 on-demand here: https://shorturl.pulse.ly/hesdu2lvwz
Our expert panel walk you through finding opportunities, applications, and interview success.
Access part 1 on-demand here: https://shorturl.pulse.ly/hesdu2lvwz
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Important enough for a second repost. It was so short sighted to get rid of them.
Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds
New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report
and the Tories destroyed them
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report
and the Tories destroyed them
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds
New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report
www.theguardian.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Important enough for a second repost. It was so short sighted to get rid of them.
The increased pay award and increase in funding to schools is welcome. The requirement that schools make further ‘efficiencies’ AKA cuts, to cover shortfall is not. And as for exhortation to increase productivity - pretty tricky when you are already maxed out and exhausted….
May 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The increased pay award and increase in funding to schools is welcome. The requirement that schools make further ‘efficiencies’ AKA cuts, to cover shortfall is not. And as for exhortation to increase productivity - pretty tricky when you are already maxed out and exhausted….
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That headroom is not spread equally. Schools with high retention (strong relationships & culture) tend to have more experienced staff & bigger costs. In areas of lower funding gaps are exacerbated. Not at all the same as higher funded, high turnover, lower cost base.
We need a level playing field.
We need a level playing field.
Schools have £400 million of 'headroom' for next year’s teacher pay rise – but this would only cover part of the recommended 2.8% increase, the DfE has admitted
Teacher pay: £400m ‘headroom’ only covers part of rise, DfE admits
The DfE makes admission on teacher pay funding as it announces more than £1 billion to cover schools’ increased national insurance contributions
www.tes.com
March 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
That headroom is not spread equally. Schools with high retention (strong relationships & culture) tend to have more experienced staff & bigger costs. In areas of lower funding gaps are exacerbated. Not at all the same as higher funded, high turnover, lower cost base.
We need a level playing field.
We need a level playing field.
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Reform’s circles of influence: who’s who at the top of the party
It's not a party. It's a company controlled by Farage.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It's not a party. It's a company controlled by Farage.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s circles of influence: who’s who at the top of the party
From MPs and donors to the backroom team, key players around the leader Nigel Farage
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Reform’s circles of influence: who’s who at the top of the party
It's not a party. It's a company controlled by Farage.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It's not a party. It's a company controlled by Farage.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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If you are or you work with (new) middle leader(s) this year, I've written this rather candid summary for you!
www.researchtoclassroom.com/post/a-blog-...
#UKEd
#EduBlogUK
#EduSky
www.researchtoclassroom.com/post/a-blog-...
#UKEd
#EduBlogUK
#EduSky
A Blog for (New) Middle Leaders
A message to middle leaders at the start of the new academic year.
www.researchtoclassroom.com
September 1, 2024 at 5:47 AM
If you are or you work with (new) middle leader(s) this year, I've written this rather candid summary for you!
www.researchtoclassroom.com/post/a-blog-...
#UKEd
#EduBlogUK
#EduSky
www.researchtoclassroom.com/post/a-blog-...
#UKEd
#EduBlogUK
#EduSky
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This, to me, is the single change that would do the most to improve history teaching in the UK.
It could happen pretty much immediately, would face little opposition, and is cost neutral. And, like it or not, GCSE assessment rubrics are probs the biggest lever we can pull to effect change at scale.
It could happen pretty much immediately, would face little opposition, and is cost neutral. And, like it or not, GCSE assessment rubrics are probs the biggest lever we can pull to effect change at scale.
It’s time to sort out - finally - rubbish source questions in GCSE (and to an extent A Level) History exams. Asking generic questions of a couple of sentences of text with almost no contextual detail is not historical and we should have stopped this years ago.
clioetcetera.com/2015/07/22/w...
clioetcetera.com/2015/07/22/w...
Why do GCSE and A-Level exams get it so horribly wrong?
As GCSE and A-Level reforms come into reality over the next year, I am left reflecting on the latest stage in a story that has been developing in England for over two decades: the way in which sources...
clioetcetera.com
August 31, 2024 at 4:53 PM
This, to me, is the single change that would do the most to improve history teaching in the UK.
It could happen pretty much immediately, would face little opposition, and is cost neutral. And, like it or not, GCSE assessment rubrics are probs the biggest lever we can pull to effect change at scale.
It could happen pretty much immediately, would face little opposition, and is cost neutral. And, like it or not, GCSE assessment rubrics are probs the biggest lever we can pull to effect change at scale.
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#HistoryTeacher #HistoryEducation
Great generosity from @iandawson51.bsky.social as ever
Links to Wars of Roses resources below
Great generosity from @iandawson51.bsky.social as ever
Links to Wars of Roses resources below
If you or anyone you know is starting to teach the Wars of the Roses at A level for the first time this year there's a range of tried and successful resources here plus links to other resources.
thinkinghistory.co.uk/Issues/WoR/W...
thinkinghistory.co.uk/Issues/WoR/W...
The Wars of the Roses for A Level
History teaching methods, resources for history teachers, guidance for trainee teachers
thinkinghistory.co.uk
August 28, 2024 at 5:06 PM
#HistoryTeacher #HistoryEducation
Great generosity from @iandawson51.bsky.social as ever
Links to Wars of Roses resources below
Great generosity from @iandawson51.bsky.social as ever
Links to Wars of Roses resources below
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We are thrilled Dylan Wiliam will join us to share his expertise about an incredibly successful programme we have introduced with the EEF
Free Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA) online event
Wed 9th Oct
Learn more: www.ssatuk.co.uk/event/efa-wi...
@dylanwiliam.bsky.social #UkEd #EduSky
Free Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA) online event
Wed 9th Oct
Learn more: www.ssatuk.co.uk/event/efa-wi...
@dylanwiliam.bsky.social #UkEd #EduSky
Embedding Formative Assessment with Dylan Wiliam - SSAT
We are delighted to be joined by Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment, University College London and originator of the Embedding Formative Assessment programme, for an online bri...
www.ssatuk.co.uk
August 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM
We are thrilled Dylan Wiliam will join us to share his expertise about an incredibly successful programme we have introduced with the EEF
Free Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA) online event
Wed 9th Oct
Learn more: www.ssatuk.co.uk/event/efa-wi...
@dylanwiliam.bsky.social #UkEd #EduSky
Free Embedding Formative Assessment (EFA) online event
Wed 9th Oct
Learn more: www.ssatuk.co.uk/event/efa-wi...
@dylanwiliam.bsky.social #UkEd #EduSky
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Really important new study: what learning strategies do successful students use?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-l...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-l...
August 28, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Really important new study: what learning strategies do successful students use?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-l...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-l...
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Are you involved in #historyteacher #TeacherEducation working with an #ITT #ITE #PGCE #SCITT beginning history teacher this year? Please point them towards this FREE Historical Association webinar exploring how they can thrive during their training!
www.history.org.uk/events/calen...
www.history.org.uk/events/calen...
Survive and thrive in your initial teacher education
Calling all those beginning their initial teacher education! In this session you’ll hear from and be able to ask questions to both teacher educators and those who have just completed their initial tea...
www.history.org.uk
August 27, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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Hello #edusky! @richkhistory.bsky.social and I are running this webinar series this autumn…
All about teaching disciplinary thinking (‘second order concepts’) in history….
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
All about teaching disciplinary thinking (‘second order concepts’) in history….
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
August 27, 2024 at 7:25 AM
Hello #edusky! @richkhistory.bsky.social and I are running this webinar series this autumn…
All about teaching disciplinary thinking (‘second order concepts’) in history….
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
All about teaching disciplinary thinking (‘second order concepts’) in history….
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
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If you or anyone you know is starting to teach the Wars of the Roses at A level for the first time this year there's a range of tried and successful resources here plus links to other resources.
thinkinghistory.co.uk/Issues/WoR/W...
thinkinghistory.co.uk/Issues/WoR/W...
The Wars of the Roses for A Level
History teaching methods, resources for history teachers, guidance for trainee teachers
thinkinghistory.co.uk
August 27, 2024 at 1:43 PM
If you or anyone you know is starting to teach the Wars of the Roses at A level for the first time this year there's a range of tried and successful resources here plus links to other resources.
thinkinghistory.co.uk/Issues/WoR/W...
thinkinghistory.co.uk/Issues/WoR/W...
Reposted by Rachel Mills
Are you involved in #historyteacher #TeacherEducation working with an #ITT #ITE #PGCE #SCITT beginning history teacher this year? Please point them towards this FREE Historical Association webinar exploring how they can thrive during their training!
www.history.org.uk/events/calen...
www.history.org.uk/events/calen...
Survive and thrive in your initial teacher education
Calling all those beginning their initial teacher education! In this session you’ll hear from and be able to ask questions to both teacher educators and those who have just completed their initial tea...
www.history.org.uk
August 27, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Are you involved in #historyteacher #TeacherEducation working with an #ITT #ITE #PGCE #SCITT beginning history teacher this year? Please point them towards this FREE Historical Association webinar exploring how they can thrive during their training!
www.history.org.uk/events/calen...
www.history.org.uk/events/calen...